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Three young people were killed on February 2, 2016 in Fresno County, California when their van was broadsided by a big rig dump truck pulling two trailers of rocks. The accident took place at East South and South Buttonwillow Avenues…

A large outbreak of Shigella food poisoning has been linked to the Mariscos San Juan No. 3 restaurant in San Jose, California, according to the Santa Clara County Public Health Department (SCCPHD). At least 93 people have been sickened to…

If you eat fish, you need to know about Ciguatera poisoning, a type of food poisoning that is linked to fish harvested in warm waters. Ciguatera is a toxin produced by micro algae called Gambierdiscus toxicus. It does not change…

Two ongoing Salmonella outbreaks in this country, one in North Dakota and the other in Detroit, Michigan, remain a mystery. A Salmonella Thompson outbreak in North Dakota has sickened 21 people since the end of July. And a rare strain…

A teenager from New Berlin, Wisconsin, was riding his bicycle home after football practice at New Berlin Eisenhower when he was struck by a DHL delivery truck, sending him to the ground in a violent crash that he survived. Police…

Four men have died in the Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak at the Illinois Veterans’ Home in Quincy. Twenty-nine residents of the facility have been sickened in this outbreak. The water system at the facility had to be contaminated with the pathogenic…

Hi, my name is Brendan Flaherty, a food safety attorney at our law firm. I represent people affected by the Blue Bell Creameries listeriosis outbreak. In the video above, I discuss the recent announcement from the FDA where they publish…

The family of a man killed on a motorcycle by a car leaving a restaurant has sued the restaurant for wrongful death, alleging the owner should have put up signs warning patrons leaving the parking lot that there was no…

In 2008, Minnesota passed a law prohibiting texting and other uses of a cell phone while driving a motor vehicle: No person may operate a motor vehicle while using a wireless communications device to compose, read, or send an electronic…

In the last few days, 4 people have died in 3 different accidents, all involving a semitrailer. One of the accidents involved a bicycle. The crash investigations are looking at whether speed and truck driver distraction caused the accidents. If…

Millions of cars and vans have been recalled for defective airbags. Faulty inflators in the airbags can rupture (explode) when an accident triggers airbag deployment. Metal fragments from the inflators can then spray out from the airbag, causing serious injury…

$18.4 billion is the estimated lifetime medical cost for the 2,519,471 people who were injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2012, according to the CDC. The findings were published in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report*, a CDC publication.…